Tyler Nurse Charged with Murder

SMITH COUNTY — William George Davis, 34, was booked into the Smith County Jail Tuesday on a murder charge. His bond was set at $2 million. Davis is also being investigated by the Texas Board of Nursing. According to KTBB’s news partner, KETK, in an order of temporary suspension, the board alleges that on August 4, 2017, while a registered nurse at CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital’s Louis and Peaches Owen Heart Hospital, Davis entered a patient’s room and performed an “unskilled and/or unnecessary and/or inappropriate intervention.” The suspension order states that the patient “deteriorated from their stable condition and a stroke code was issued.” The stroke “ultimately contributed to the patient’s demise” on Aug. 6.

The document also alleges that on Nov. 30, 2017, and again on Jan. 25, 2018, he entered a patient’s room and performed an “unskilled and/or unnecessary and/or inappropriate intervention” for the patients that on both occasions left the patients in persistent vegetative states. Davis was fired from the hospital in February. The Texas Board of Nursing suspended his license to practice as a nurse and determined that any continued practice by him would constitute “a continuing and imminent threat to public welfare.”